My vote goes to Oldman. I thought those two depicted him well by the book's standards. Also I love those two actors. I thought Oldman matched the old paintings of the real Vlad Tepes III very well. He may have had silly hair as an old man but he still made me shiver.

I'll write in Max Schreck, even though his character wasn't called "Dracula."

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"The basic plot is that Donna Speir and Hope Marie Carlton, the two undercover DEA agent Playboy Playmates from the last movie, are still running around in jungle shorts, cowboy boots and spaghetti strap T-shirts, firing their machine guns at drug smugglers, Filipino communist guerrillas, and corrupt federal agents while their two friends, Lisa London and Miss May 1984 Patty Duffek, lounge around the pool a lot and talk on speaker phones that look like fax machines."-Joe Bob on SAVAGE BEACH

Frances Lederer, from 1958's The Return Of Dracula. While not a world class movie, it was a very sinister one-off perfromance that in many ways may have influenced Dan Curtis to create Barnabas Collins for Dark Shadows.

Let's compare:

Both Bellac and Barnabas Collins were relatives from "the old world", although Bellac was impersonating.

Both caused their family's wonder at their nocturnal preferences as opposed to daytime visits. And last, both displayed very polite (though pointed) manners, and did\said just enough to convince their families of their legitimacy, though not w\o it's doubts.

Return Of Dracula isn't a great movie, but a very good one that deserves watching.

ns is vius.But I would have included John Carradine. He is my 2nd favorite Dracula. He played the Count in HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN,HOUSE OF DRACULA,BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA,VAMPIRA,and DRACULA'S LAST RITES.Lee would be 3rd.Jack Palance was a good Dracula as well.And Lon Chaney Jr. was Dracula in the excellent SON OF DRACULA (1943).

Ask some one to imitate Dracula-they dont do Lee,Carradine or Oldman.They do LUGOSI.